- Author David Arnold replies to criticisms Dr. Debbie Reese presented about character and cultural authenticity as it relates to Native Americans, specifically the Cherokee Nation, in his book Mosquitoland.

- School Library Journal announces their 2015 Movers and Shakers: The People Shaping the Future of Libraries.The list includes friends of YA Highway, We Need Diverse Books. Congrats!

- Our own Badass Lady of Badassitude continues her Badass Ladies You Should Know series by profiling dear friend and talented author, Courtney Summers, who dishes on her inspirations, her dedication to feminism, and the paths that got her to where she is now.

- Buzzfeed writer Kaye Toal finds the fat character she's been searching to see herself reflected by in Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor and Park.

- We applaud Oklahoma State University president, David Boren, for shutting down the SAE fraternity after a racist video featuring several of its members emerges. Two students were expelled from the university, and the fraternity organization pledged to look at its chapters nationwide to determine where else the song has been used or might have originated. Color me cynical.

- Oh noes, they're making a Ghostbusters for the wimmins! We all know that makes it a chick flick and not, I don't know, a universal story or anything like that (haha, don't be silly, women are complete mysteries!), so whew, thank goodness Sony's ALSO rebooting yet another male-only Ghostbusters for the whinybabies who can't deal with women doing things other than look booby-ish on their screen. We hope, at least, that all the love interests are male, as well.

- A study says...there are too many studies. They're leading to "attention decay." So, you know, relax a little. Go for a walk. Enjoy the spring blooms (they're going crazy here in Seattle). Connect more with your life, and less with talking points.